Extreme adaptive optics

O Guyon - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Over the last two decades, several thousand exoplanets have been identified, and their
study has become a high scientific priority. Direct imaging of nearby exoplanets and the …

[KNJIGA][B] Principles of adaptive optics

RK Tyson, BW Frazier - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Principles of Adaptive Optics describes the foundations, principles, and applications of
adaptive optics (AO) and its enabling technologies. This leading textbook addresses the …

Performance of the Gemini Planet Imager's adaptive optics system

LA Poyneer, DW Palmer, B Macintosh, D Savransky… - Applied Optics, 2016 - opg.optica.org
The Gemini Planet Imager's adaptive optics (AO) subsystem was designed specifically to
facilitate high-contrast imaging. A definitive description of the system's algorithms and …

Investigation on two-stage vibration suppression and precision pointing for space optical payloads

H Yun, L Liu, Q Li, H Yang - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
For space optical payloads, it is difficult to achieve vibration suppression and high precision
pointing due to broadband range of micro-vibration. This paper thus presents one two-stage …

Adaptive optics control with multi-agent model-free reinforcement learning

B Pou, F Ferreira, E Quinones, D Gratadour… - Optics express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We present a novel formulation of closed-loop adaptive optics (AO) control as a multi-agent
reinforcement learning (MARL) problem in which the controller is able to learn a non-linear …

Self-optimizing adaptive optics control with reinforcement learning for high-contrast imaging

R Landman, SY Haffert… - Journal of …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Current and future high-contrast imaging instruments require extreme adaptive optics
systems to reach contrasts necessary to directly imaged exoplanets. Telescope vibrations …

BP artificial neural network based wave front correction for sensor-less free space optics communication

Z Li, X Zhao - Optics Communications, 2017 - Elsevier
The sensor-less adaptive optics (AO) is one of the most promising methods to compensate
strong wave front disturbance in free space optics communication (FSO). The back …

Adaptive optics predictive control with empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs)

O Guyon, J Males - arxiv preprint arxiv:1707.00570, 2017 - arxiv.org
Atmospheric wavefront prediction based on previous wavefront sensor measurements can
greatly enhance the performance of adaptive optics systems. We propose an optimal linear …

SPHERE eXtreme AO control scheme: final performance assessment and on sky validation of the first auto-tuned LQG based operational system

C Petit, JF Sauvage, T Fusco, A Sevin… - … Optics Systems IV, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetry High-contrast Exoplanet Research) instrument is an ESO
project aiming at the direct detection of extra-solar planets. SPHERE has been successfully …

Wavefront prediction using artificial neural networks for open-loop adaptive optics

X Liu, T Morris, C Saunter… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Latency in the control loop of adaptive optics (AO) systems can severely limit performance.
Under the frozen flow hypothesis linear predictive control techniques can overcome this; …